Exploiting the ISIS Vulnerabilities in Iraq

The terrorists' heavy military equipment is hard to maintain, easy to target from the air.

By

Michael Pregent And

Michael Weiss

Aug. 12, 2014 6:55 p.m. ET

The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, aka ISIS, captured hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. military equipment as the Iraqi Security Forces fled the terrorist group's advance on Mosul in June. The result is that ISIS now has some very sophisticated weapons it is using to take and hold territory in Syria and Iraq.

Yet ISIS is not nearly so invincible as its weaponry and territorial gains have made it seem. The terror group has clear vulnerabilities that the U.S., working with Kurdish Peshmerga militia and Iraqi forces...